Studying Film and TV Actors (and Their Intermediaries): A Cultural and Industrial Approach

Abstract

ABSTRACT This introduction summarises the main goals and issues of the research project in its initial phase on contemporary Italian film and television actors, which is drawing together performance studies, stardom/celebrity studies, and media industries studies. The whole project, and this first output, shows how collaboration between disciplines, perspectives, and methods will help to better understand the many layers of a complex, multifaceted phenomenon.